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My dear Miss Wilcox, I hope your mother is improving in spite of the cold winds and that you are beginning to think of turning your face to the South, now that Easter is so near. It will be a great pleasure to see you, and I hope you will soon be able to mention a day.
Do tell me if you know the answer to Mr Dodgson’s Acrostic in Phantasmagoria I am sure that the second ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Harrison Thank you so much for my God daughter’s photograph. Alas! I have been a very bad Godmother to her, never having a chance to come in her way, but I go so little from home and when I do, it is always to my own people in Devon.
I have not been to London even for three years! Unluckily I just missed Mrs Bland when she was staying with the Bakers at Winchester. ... continue reading
My dear Margaret
So many thanks for sending me Miss Smedley. I had a good deal of her in the Readers, but I shall borrow more now. I wish her verses had been more known but I think they will grow into part of the common stock of knowledge of poetry in our youth. I sincerely rejoice at your brother’s appointment not only is it good for him, but what a load it takes from your ... continue reading